Hot cooks with cool books

Alice Waters and Anthony Bourdain. Both are famous for food, but that’s where similarity ends.

While Waters conjures images of blissfully simple fare using fresh, organic ingredients, Bourdain slams us with spice, both the kind you sprinkle on your dish and the kind that comes out of the mouth. He’s as hot as she is cool.

The woman who jump-started the California cuisine craze and the guy you don’t want to miss in No Reservations will be paying a visit to Marin courtesy of Corte Madere’s Book Passage. The Cooks with Books author events are extremely popular.

So popular in fact, that the Bourdain dinner in honor of his newly released tome, Medium Raw, scheduled for the evening of June 17, is already sold out. You can hope for the best and leave your name on the waiting list, or you can attend his SF event earlier in the day, which is still available.

Alice will be pitching her new book The Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn By Heart on May 2 and that event also still has space available. Details about both events–and other Cooks with Books author appearances–here.